Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1887-05-07
COAST ITEMS.

The Governor has offered $z5o for the ar
rest of the Klumpf murderer.
| Blackberries from Alhambra were in the
Los Angeles market, April 2oth.
A rolling mill and nail factory in the vi
cinty of Los Angeles are talked Of.
Verona Baldwin proposes to lecture on the
injuries she claims to have received at the
hand of E. J. Baldwin.
| c. B. Nelson, connected with a wealthy
family of Kansas City, has been arrested at
Socorro, N. M, for forgery.
The carpenters at Santa Barbara are on a
strike for nine hours. The contractors re-
fuse to pay for full days work for nine
hours.
The George W. Elder has been quarran-
tined at Victoria, B. c. A woman and child
on board were believed to be suffering from
smallpox.
The schooner Active, heretofore reported
several times as having been lost, with all
hands, has been heard from off Queen Char.
lotte Island.
Callahan, who called a neighbor to his
door at San Bernardino and then shot him
down, has been convicted Of murder, and
will have life sentence.
| The people Of San Bernardino are incens-
ed at the verdict Of the jury in the case Of
Collonan, who killed George Ferris, was not
that OF death instead of life imprisonment.
A few years ago L. C. Tibbets took up a
piece of government land near Riverside.
Last week he held an auction sale of eighty.
five building lots and realized nearly $4,000
therefrom.
Chinatown was destroyed by fire at San
Jose, Thursday afternoon, with the exception
of a lodging house and theatre. The loss to
the Cinnamon and the owners Of the proper
ty is about $4,000, insurance $4,000.
Portland, Or, now reads San Francisco
papers two days after their publication. The
mail reaches Tacoma, w. T.. in forty eight
hours and Seattle in fifty-one. This is over
the Oregon and California line, with stage
connections.
Advices from the mining camp Of Lake
Valley, N. NJ, state that David Burke and
Con Ryan, having quarreled over mining
claim, agreed to settle the difficulty by re-
sort to pistols. Each party fired two shots.
which resulted in the killing Of Burke. Ry-
an is under arrest.
The son of A. Shves, Of Santa Barbara,
aged about twelve years, while playing near
where some men had been blasting rock,
last Monday, got hold Of some giant powder
and setting fire to it, piece of iron struck
him in the eye, knocking his eye out and
lodging in his brain.
A rich silver mineral strike has been made
Butte, M. T. Several smaller strikes have
been made by contractors, but this was big
one. Nearly every foot of the mountain has
been taken up in the last twenty years, and
many claims have been patented.
Mrs. Henry ]. Hall, widow of Henry J.
Hall, the wealthy Californian who commit
ted suicide at the Fifth.avenu Hotel, New
York, on March IL, 1884, and a sister of
Land Commissioner Sparks wife, is reported
to be dying Of consumption, and it is feared
that she may live only few days.
Three weeks ago, at HINES Postofice, near
Bonnister, Idaho, the snow was twenty-five
feet deep. The inhabitants dug tunnels from
house to house. When it commenced to snow
large number of cattle was lying down by
stack. They were completely covered up
and it was thought by the owners that they
were still there eating hay.
A deal was consummated at Los Angeles
for the building Of a railroad from Shorb's
from Los Angeles, southwark through the
Laguna Cerritos and Almitos ranches, the
California Cooperative Colony and the Brock
ton Colony to Almitos beach and Long Beach.
Inhabitants of Northern Idaho, are com.
planning of the tricks in trade of the Chinese.
1t is said that they mix gold dust worth So
an oun ce with that worth $I6 and dispose of
it at the maximum figure. Besides this, they
fail to burn their fine dust sufficiently, there
by retaining much quicksilver. and also file
up silver dollars and mix the filings with the
gold.
A Lewiston. Idaho, dispatch. says: Mrs.
A. d. Mckinley died suddenly at her home
few miles from Cottonwood. 1t is report
ed that physician administered, by mistake
strychnine, instead of ipecac, to produce